Forking a Wild Ricochet
Asked by Weekend_Magic_NC 4 years ago
*this may be hard to follow my brain boils Everytime I try to think it through
So I cast Fling ; I then target Fling with Wild Ricochet . I target Wild Ricochet with Fork . Fork resolves. A second instance of Wild Ricochet hits the stack. I keep the original target Fling but I target Wild Ricochet with the copy. Can I keep following the pattern of targeting Fling and Wild Ricochet forever?
Raging_Squiggle says... #2
You may repeatedly target Wild Ricochet with copies of Wild Ricochet , creating new copies of it on the stack, however it will not increase the amount of Fling s you’ll have.
Boza says... Accepted answer #1
Before anything resolves the stack looks this, top to bottom:
fork
wild ricochet
fling
Fork resolves. It creates another Wild Ricochet . When it is created, you choose the original Wild Ricochet as the target spell, which can lead to infinite Wild Ricochet copies, but nothing more. This scenario leads to either:
a/ infinite copies of Wild Ricochet , which accomplishes nothing unless paired with Ral, Storm Conduit , and you will be forced to make a different choice which leads to b/
b/ at most 3 instances of Fling - the original, the original Wild Ricochet and a copy created by either Fork or any one of the infinite Wild Ricochet s you could create.
January 2, 2020 9:30 a.m.